Claus Schnabel

Research Fellow

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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Research Interests

Claus Schnabel has been professor of economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2000. Since 2015, he is also research professor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). He studied economics at Hohenheim University, Germany, and at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, where he received an M.A. in 1985. He received his doctoral degree in economics from Hohenheim University in 1988 and finished his habilitation at Ruhr University Bochum in 1997. From 1988 to 2000 he worked as researcher and finally as senior economist at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft in Cologne.

His main research interests are in the fields of empirical labour economics and industrial relations. Currently, he works on the following topics: trade unions, collective bargaining, wage differentials, codetermination, entrepreneurship, and start-ups. He has published widely in economics, industrial relations and other journals, including the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Journal, European Sociological Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Labour Economics. He has also published a number of books and edited (with John T. Addison) the International Handbook of Trade Unions.

Claus Schnabel joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2006.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3353
Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Claus Schnabel, Susanne Kohaut, Udo Brixy
published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(1), 85-100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2443
Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Boris Hirsch, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel
substantially revised version published as "Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (2), 291-330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2388
The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?
Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2007, 14(2), 118-132
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2000
The (Parlous) State of German Unions
John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2007, 28 (1), 3-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1658
Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany
Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2006, 13 (2), 118-131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1473
Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
John T. Addison, Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 187-203
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1464
Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries: Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38 (1), 5-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1414
Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Joachim Wagner, John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Thorsten Schank
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2006, 226 (5), 505-518
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1185
Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Thorsten Schank, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
substantially revised version published as 'Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from linked employer-employee data' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 52-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 878
The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (2), 255-281
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